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Nigeria: Up to 150 drowned, shot dead fleeing the Islamic State

Aug 18, 2015 7:44 pm By Robert Spencer

boko-haram-shekauSavagery: “They opened fire instantly, which forced residents to flee. They shot a number of people. Unfortunately many residents who tried to flee plunged into the river which is full from the rain. Many drowned.”

Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State last February, and later changed its name to the Islamic State in West Africa. “Up to 150 drowned, shot dead fleeing Boko Haram in Nigeria,” by Aminu Abubakar, AFP, August 18, 2015:

Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) – Up to 150 people drowned in a river or were shot dead fleeing Boko Haram gunmen who raided a remote village in Nigeria’s northeastern Yobe state, residents said on Tuesday.

Dozens of militants arrived on motorcycles and in a car on Thursday last week and sprayed automatic gunfire, scattering terrified inhabitants of Kukuwa-Gari.

“They opened fire instantly, which forced residents to flee. They shot a number of people. Unfortunately many residents who tried to flee plunged into the river which is full from the rain. Many drowned,” Modu Balumi, a resident of the village, told AFP.

“By our latest toll we have 150 people either (shot dead) or drowned in the attack. The gunmen deliberately killed a fisherman who tried to save drowning residents of the village.”

Balumi said the bodies of many of the drowned were picked out by locals several kilometres away.

News of the attack was slow to emerge because the militants have destroyed telecom masts around the village, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Yobe State capital Damaturu, since the insurgency began in 2009.

“Most residents, particularly women and children, ran towards the river in confusion,”said Bukar Tijjani, another villager, who confirmed the death toll.

“They were pursued by the gunmen who kept firing at them. In the frantic effort to escape they jumped into the river, which was full to the brim.”

A local government official confirmed the attack but put the death toll much lower, at around 50….

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Filed Under: Boko Haram, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Nigeria Tagged With: Kukuwa-Gari, Yobe


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  1. Cecilia Ellis says

    Aug 18, 2015 at 8:18 pm

    “Up to 150 drowned, shot dead fleeing Boko Haram in Nigeria . . . A local government official confirmed the attack but put the death toll much lower, at around 50….”

    Of course it did . . .

    Everyday Islam brutally claims victim after victim, but no news bulletin interrupts the talk-show hosts. But Cecil the Lion, well that’s another story . . . oh, the outrage!

    Barbaric thugs! Yet, the West is silent . . . apathetic . . .

    • M S case says

      Aug 19, 2015 at 11:16 am

      The 3 M’s follow isis and Islam.MAYHEM MULITATION and MURDER, wherever they are found

  2. Annabelleebeidersee says

    Aug 18, 2015 at 9:17 pm

    A good caption for the photo of the Boko Haram “soldiers” : “He who
    laughs last, laughs best.”

    • mortimer says

      Aug 19, 2015 at 2:11 am

      For Boko Haram to last so long, it is certain that large numbers of Nigeria’s Muslims are supporting them.

      • t says

        Aug 19, 2015 at 12:04 pm

        Any Terror Setup cannot Stand with Frontline Operators. All Facilitations are done by Abettors/ Stealth Operators of that Setup. Without say it is known that these Terrorists Bank upon the Muslims, may be Within or Outside the Country or Both. Most of the Occasions all Blame the Frontline Operators, but No One try to Find Out Trojan Horses Infiltrated in the Administration.

      • MUSA TANKO says

        Aug 20, 2015 at 5:12 pm

        this is a mere acusation. nigerian muslims suffer more inthe hands of boko haram than any other group. pls just restrict yourself on what you know never talk out of ignorance

    • Angemon says

      Aug 19, 2015 at 1:27 pm

      Unfortunately, for the time being ““im in ur base killin ur d00dz” would make a more accurate caption.

  3. gravenimage says

    Aug 18, 2015 at 9:50 pm

    Nigeria: Up to 150 drowned, shot dead fleeing the Islamic State
    ……………………

    More unmitigated savagery from the “Caliphate”.

    More:

    A local government official confirmed the attack but put the death toll much lower, at around 50….
    ……………………

    Oh, well, that’s OK then…sarc/off

    Goodluck Jonathan was notably hapless and not at all up for the task of fighting a vicious Islamic insurgency, there is no doubt–but now that Nigeria has a Muslim president, things are likely to be even worse…

    He is, indeed, a supporter of Shari’ah in Nigeria. How hard is he likely to fight his own pious coreligionists?

    Muhammadu Buhari is already talking about “negotiating” with Boko Haram:

    “Nigerian Government Spokesman: ‘Can’t Rule Out ‘ Negotiating with Boko Haram”

    http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/07/06/nigerian-government-spokesman-cant-rule-out-negotiating-with-boko-haram/

  4. mortimer says

    Aug 19, 2015 at 2:04 am

    Jihad is nothing but genocide and ethnic cleansing. This attack shows Islam laid bare for the world to observe.

    Boko Haram is normative Islam, rather than an aberration.

  5. duh_swami says

    Aug 19, 2015 at 8:49 am

    Allah is well pleased…We know this because a disembodied, and very violent disembodied spook name Gabriel, said so…Allah demands human and animal sacrifices, and the pious supply them.

  6. Jae M says

    Aug 19, 2015 at 6:43 pm

    Their actions prove they are motivated only by an evil lust for power and murder. They open fired on innocent civilians, not knowing or caring what religion they followed or who they worship. These are truly demon infested bodies pretending to be “soldiers”. They act worse than rabid dogs.

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